In our Weekend Reader newsletter, LionsRoar.com’s Sam Littlefair looks at how our phones can be both an object of distraction and an object of meditation.
Speak No Evil, Tweet No Evil
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all—but that’s a lot easier said than done. A look into trying right speech.
Ask the Teachers: What kinds of personal changes can we reasonably expect from Buddhist practice?
Sebene Selassie, Rose Taylor Goldfield, and Guo Gu respond to the question “It seems that Buddhists are just as reactive and narcissistic as anyone else. What kinds of changes can we reasonably expect from Buddhist practice?”
5 Ways to Win the Internet
Zen priest Gesshin Greenwood offers five tips for staying safe and sane online.
How to Read the News
How can we follow the news in ways that nurture – and don’t diminish – wellbeing? Media scholar Holly Stocking offers some guidance.
What Do You Put in Your Mind?
Just as you consume food, you consume media. And like food, some media is wholesome and some is unhealthy. Sister True Dedication on why you need to pay attention to what nourishes your mind.
4 Tips for a Going on a Media Diet
Sister True Dedication, a Buddhist teacher and former BBC journalist, offers tips for keeping your head clear in the modern media landscape.
Don’t Comment
In this short piece, Eli Brown-Stevenson explains his personal vow, “Don’t comment.”
Seeing Beyond the Screen
Yael Shy invites millennials to bring some mindfulness into their digital lives.
Beware of donation-seeking Facebook pages impersonating Buddhist teachers
A number of followers of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche’s Facebook page have received messages seeking donations from accounts impersonating the teacher.